does this happen with any other o/s installed? did you set your time zone improperly? ntpd may be changing the time on boot, did you disable it, set the time and then reboot? (chkconfig --level 12345 ntpd off) is your cmos battery getting flakey? James Lemke said: > I took an older machine (HP Vectra, P2-450, 128M, 10G, eth0=dfe530tx+, > eth1=3c905b) and did a fresh install of FC1 on it. I ran up2date and > applied all fixes. > > The system appears to work fine except that the system time keeps > jumping to approximately 4 hours before the current time. This happens > whether or not ntpd is running. hwclock is fine. > > I tried setting the system to time to current time +4 hours. The next > occurrence still went back to current time -4 hours. > > The only pattern I see in syslog is that the jump always appears to > occur when a message like the following appears: > > Apr 14 11:52:55 shoal kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa > 0x45E1 > > (This msg is always the first one with the incorrect time.) > > Anyone have any ideas? > > -- > Jim Lemke jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx Orillia, Ontario FWD# M:245401 H:246889 > 1992 ST1100, STOC #3750 COG #2637 > Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot